Bigness
['biɡnis]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.
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Examples
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In bigness these greater _Dinosaurs_ have never been exceeded, although the sea can still show in the whales creatures as great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If the conductor be good and of sufficient bigness, the fluid passes through it without hurting it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There is an appeal in Napoleon to something deeper and more fundamental in human nature than mere astonishment at bigness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The superfices was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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